The Informant!
You know that orange juice
you have every morning?
You know what's in that?
Corn.
And you know what's in the maple syrup
on your pancakes?
You know what makes it taste so good?
Corn. When you're good
and help with the trash...
...you know what makes the big,
green bags biodegradable?
Do you?
Corn.
Corn starch.
But Daddy's company didn't come up
with that one. DuPont did.
Porsche or Porsche?
I've heard it both ways.
Three years in Germany, I should know.
What's German for "corn"?
The German word I really like is
kugelschreiber. That's "pen."
All those syllables just for "pen."
Archer Daniels Midland.
Most people have never heard of us.
Chances are, they've never
had a meal we're not part of.
Just read the side of the package.
That's us. Now ADM
is taking the dextrose from the corn...
...and turning it into an amino acid
called lysine. It's all very scientific.
If you're a stockholder...
...all that matters is corn goes in one end
and profit comes out the other.
We have the largest lysine plant
in the worid. That's where I come in.
- Hey, Kirk.
- Mark.
- When are we gonna hit some balls?
- Anytime.
What do they pay Kirk?
What does a guy like that get?
I bet he gets a hundred grand.
He's just gonna sit behind that desk
and ride it into the future.
Good morgen.
- Morning, Mark.
- Morning.
They have lysine results.
Great.
We adjusted the dextrose levels
again, but the virus keeps showing up.
I thought we had it surrounded this time.
We started a new set of cultures.
We'll get it.
We just have to stay after it.
The things eat sugar
and that's what we're giving them.
A warm place filled with sugar.
The f***ing thing is supposed to
produce 113,000 tons annually.
We're not gonna get anywhere
close to that.
We've got over $150 million in
costs over there, guys.
Do the Japanese have these problems?
I don't give a sh*t about the Japanese.
You've gotta get
...to eat some dextrose
and sh*t us out some money.
We're having problems with this virus.
I don't want to hear about the virus.
How much are we losing a month?
We are down like seven million per.
That's not gonna fly much longer.
You want to go in next month, tell my
father we're sucking the hind tit on this?
I sure don't.
We're number 44 on the Fortune 500 list,
Mark.
I don't want this turning us
into number 45.
Fix it.
Feed a chicken corn and it gets sick,
like what happened to the first settlers.
Pellagra disease. Niacin deficiency.
Gave them all sorts of problems:
dermatitis, ataxia, even dementia.
Feed a chicken corn and lysine and
it goes from egg to supermarket fryer...
...in six months instead of eight.
Mark?
Where are you?
Hey, you look great.
Oh.
They got the first wall of the stables
up today. See that?
You know they're doing a new thing
in hydroponics?
They're now feeding lysine
to the jumbo shrimp.
Can you imagine that?
You're a jumbo shrimp
and one day some corn goes floating by.
Weird, right?
There's an opening
in the plant in Mexico.
They might need me to go down
and set some stuff up.
What do you think about Mexico?
I thought we were getting horses.
Toro.
That's what Spanish bullfighters say.
But it's also what the Japanese call
the high-end tuna sushi.
Toro. Raw fish.
Who went first on that one?
The guy without the grill.
I've been to Tokio.
They sell little-girl underwear...
...in the vending machines right
on the main drag, the Ginza, or whatever.
Guys in suits buying used girl panties.
How is that okay? That's not okay.
Yeah.
There's a Mr. Nakawara calling
from the Ajinomoto Corporation.
He says you know him
and he needs to speak with you.
Yeah, put him through.
It's the Japanese. There's this guy,
Nakawara. He works at Ajinomoto.
He was here a couple weeks ago.
You met him.
I've been talking to him at work,
but sometimes from home...
...because of the time difference.
Mick, this guy knew everything.
Everything.
He says to me, "Hey, you know that total
nightmare you guys had May, June, July?"
Before I ask him what he's talking about,
he goes:
"Those months when ADM was losing
$7 million a month in the lysine business."
Mick, I couldn't believe it.
He goes on to tell me
that one of our highest-paid employees...
...is actually an employee of Ajinomoto,
who is sabotaging the plant.
They're injecting a virus into the dextrose
and contaminating the whole deal.
That's the problem.
I'm telling you, Mick, it's like Rising Sun.
It's like the Crichton novel.
It's just like that.
I go, "Why are you talking to me?"
Know what he says?
Yeah, I know what he says.
How much does he want?
Ten million dollars.
Ten million, but that gives you
the identity of the saboteur...
...the secret identity, and a new lysine bug
that is immune to the virus.
We have the plant up and running
in three days.
How well do you know this guy?
I met him when he was here. We've
spoken on the phone half a dozen times.
So not very well.
Very well? No, I wouldn't say that.
If you hear from him again,
talk him down on the price.
Find out the least amount of money
he'd settle for.
I mean, if we can get a bug that's resistant
to the virus, this might be worth it.
But keep this secret.
If there is a mole, I don't want him to know
that we're on to him.
Absolutely.
for some outlet stores.
People would come from all over
southern Illinois, probably Missouri.
Famous name-brand labels
and appliances...
...at savings
of up to 50 percent every day.
Maybe a food court
with a Mexican place.
The birds eat the bugs, the cars eat
the birds, the rust eats the cars...
- ...and new construction eats the rust.
Corky!
Alexander says there's a bat
in his room.
The FBI?
God, no.
I thought you wanted me to talk him down
on the price. And I was doing it.
We're not gonna sit back
and let the Japanese f*** us sideways.
I don't understand. We weren't gonna
mention it and now he's in on it?
Of course he's in on it.
If there's a mole, it's a security issue.
I'll be sitting in with the FBI.
I already told you everything there is
to tell.
I mean, what is the point?
Mark. Calm down. All right?
We don't like the idea of talking to the FBI
any more than you do.
They're just gonna tape the guy's calls,
ask you a few questions. No big deal.
Questions?
Jesus.
Mark?
The FBI?
Why do you have to talk to the FBI?
It's their plant.
Just... Just let them talk to the FBI.
Babe, I am really uncomfortable
with this.
There are some things
that are going on here.
What does that mean, "things"?
It just...
It means that we have to be careful.
Well, whatever you do, Corky,
...just be honest with them
and tell them the truth, okay?
He said he wanted the money wired...
...into a numbered account
in Switzerland...
...and then also in the Caribbean.
Uh... And when did you last have contact
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